Description
Book Synopsis Savannah is one of America''s most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor of colonial architecture, there lurks a deadly undercurrent. This is a first-person account of an award-winning newspaper crime reporter''s career, covering scores of murders in the Savannah area, including one of the bloodiest eras in the city''s history: in 1985, metro Savannah earned notoriety with the nation''s highest homicide rate. The author describes a wide range of crimes, including murders over a 14-year-old lover, $4 for hamburgers or a baby carriage; the grisly murder of a voodoo priest; bound corpses in the waterways and interstate body dumping grounds; the Scarecrow and Say Cheese Killers, serial killer Wade Sheffield; and many more.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Prelude: Beginnings
- Chapter 1. Front-Page Murders: Some of the Most Sensational
- Chapter 2. Other Murders Most Foul
- Chapter 3. The All but Forgotten: A Few of Savannah's Cold Cases
- Chapter 4. The Year of Dying Dangerously
- Chapter 5. Homicide in the Hinterland
- Chapter 6. Blood on the Badge
- Chapter 7. Missing Persons Files
- Chapter 8. Water, Water Everywhere: Hurricanes, Rescues and Corpses
- Chapter 9. People Do the Strangest Things: The Sad, Tragic, Vicious and Just Weird
- Chapter 10. Difference Makers, Heroes and Characters
- Chapter 11. Savannah Vice and St. Patrick's Days
- Epilogue
- Chapter Notes
- Index
